Faculty Profile

ZHANG Man, Cyndi

Full-time Faculty

Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Lee Kong Chian School of Business

LKCSB

EDUCATION

2012	Ph. D. in Management (Strategy), INSEAD
2007	B. A. in Business Administration, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

CURRENT POSITION(S) HELD

2025 - Now	Academic Director of Chinese EMBA Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2021 - Now	Associate Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2012 - 2021	Assistant Professor of Strategic Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Decision-making; Coalitions; Multiple Goals; Innovation; Institutional Complexity; Digital Transformation

PUBLICATIONS

Gao, Renfei., Zhang, Cyndi Man., He, Xiaogang., and Li, Zhengyu. 2025. “Attention to Market Expansion: Aspirational Antecedent and Risk-Taking Consequence.” Journal of Business Research, 192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115322.

Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2025. “Coalition of Logics and Consequential Decision-Making in Partially Privatized SOEs” in “Research Handbook on Corporate Governance in China”, edited by Conyon, Martin., and He, Lerong. Edward Elgar Publishing: NY.

Huang, Kenneth G., Jing, Runtian., Xia, Jun., Zhang, Cyndi Man., Zhong, Weiguo., and Zhu, David. (all authors contributed equally). 2024. "Coevolution of SOEs and the Chinese Economy: The Roles of SOE Heterogeneity from the Institutional, Strategic, and Organizational Perspectives." Management and Organization Review, 20: 704-715.

Greve, Henrich R., and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2022. Lead article “Is there a Strategic Organization in The Behavioral Theory of the Firm? Looking Back and Looking Forward”. Strategic Organization, 20 (4): 698-708.

Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2020. “Mergers and Acquisitions as Strategic Decisions for a Decision-Making Theory.” In Finkelstein, S. and Cooper, C. L (Eds.), Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume 19, 49-64. Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Zhang, Cyndi Man., and Greve, Henrich. R. 2019. Dominant Coalitions Directing Acquisitions: Different Decision Makers, Different Decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1): 44-65.

Jia, Nan., Huang, Kenneth G., and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2019. Public Governance, Corporate Governance, and Firm Innovation: An Examination of State-Owned Enterprises. Academy of Management Journal, 62 (1): 220-247.

Zhang, Cyndi Man, and Greve, Henrich. R. 2018. Delayed Adoption of Rules: A Relational Theory of Firm Exposure and State Cooptation. Journal of Management, 44 (8): 3336-3363.

Greve, Henrich. R., and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2017. Institutional Logics and Power Sources: Merger and Acquisition Decisions. Academy of Management Journal, 60 (2): 671-694.

Jia, Nan, Huang, Kenneth G. and Zhang, Cyndi Man. 2015. Agency Incentives and Firm Innovation: Patenting Behavior of State-owned Firms in China. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015: 1, 13758.

AWARDS

Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2022, 2020

Lee Kong Chian School of Business Dean’s Teaching Honour List, 2024, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017

Outstanding Editorial Board Member of Management and Organization Review, 2018

Winner of the Best paper of the DRUID Asia Conference, 2016, Singapore. “State Capitalism, Agency Risk, and Firm Innovation: Evidence from State-Owned Enterprises in China.”

Best papers of the TIM division, the Annual Academy of Management Conference, 2015, Vancouver. “Agency Incentives and Firm Innovation: Patenting Behavior of State-owned Firms in China.”

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Co-editor of special issue on Chinese SOEs at the Management and Organization Review, 2022
Editorial Review Board		Strategic Management Journal (2020- )
Editorial Review Board		Academy of Management Journal (2019- )
Editorial Review Board		Strategic Organization (2019- )
Editorial Review Board		Management and Organization Review (2014- )

cyndizhang@smu.edu.sg

Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise

Lee Kong Chian School of Business